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Hunter-gatherer

Level 4 Vital Article / C-Class

Wikiprojects - History, Anthropology, Archaeology

Seems to be very neutral and exhibits a well-rounded explanation of the topic

Citations seem to be working fine with good links to academic papers and books

Citations viewed were fairly recent, doesn't seem very outdated

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Seem to have been a lot of changes made concerning the informality in which the article was written as well as lack of citation by one user on several factual claims

This is talked about different in class because its more of a side factoid and we talk more about the violence and attitudes between Native Americans (hunter gatherers in some parts).

I recommend Chapter Three of "Major Problems in California History" by Sucheng Chan & Spencer C. Olin. As a resource it gives accounts of the Spanish Impact on Indians 1769-1821.

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 * Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad
 * This article has a good history, but fails to give the reader a mental or physical picture of what the Mission used to look like or the area was like
 * http://missionsoledad.com/history
 * http://www.missionscalifornia.com/keyfacts/soledad-mission.html

Paragraph Two of History Section
On February 21, 1824 a soldier beat a young Chumash Indian and sparked the Chumash Revolt of 1824. Some of the Indians went to get the Indians from Missions Santa Barbara and La Purísima to help in the fight. When the fighting was over, the Indians themselves put out the fire that had started at the mission. Many of the Indians left to join other tribes in the mountains; only a few Indians remained at the mission.
 * Adapted Draft: On February 21, 1824 a soldier beat a young Chumash Indian. Two separate Chumash Indian accounts written after the Revolt in the early 1900's state that around this time a Spanish page overheard Santa Inés priests talking about having the Indians of the mission killed the next summer when they arrived. The page was found out by the priests after having alerted the Indians and his tongue and feet were cut off before he was burned to death. Upon the acquisition of this news, the Indians sought the help of the Mission Santa Barbara Indians and a week later the Chumash Revolt of 1824 was sparked . When the fighting was over, the Indians themselves put out the fire that had started at the mission. Many of the Indians left to join other tribes in the mountains; only a few Indians remained at the mission.



Life on the Santa Inés Mission
Many Natives of missions in the Southwestern region of what is presently U.S. territory and North Mexico fell victim to Euro-Asiatic diseases to which they had no immunity; such as those of the Pimería Alta and Baja California missions. However, demographic studies have shown that the Santa Barbara Channel Missions (Santa Inés, Santa Barbara, San Buenaventura, and La Purísima Concepción) and many other Alta California Missions do not exactly follow this trend. Though the missions weren’t free of epidemics, the censuses taken in the 1800’s display that women and children had a much higher mortality rate than men. Diseases are not partial to gender or age, which meant that something outside of disease had a drastic effect on the Indian population in the missions.

Researchers discovered that the population decline was focused by the unique conditions of the Alta California missions: very tight, overcrowded living arrangements which fostered the spread of diseases. These conditions were met as a part of the program the missions made to culturally and religiously change the Natives. For instance, to control the chastity of the women, the Franciscans would lock up all the single women together at night in small, damp rooms.

The Alta California mission system was installed not only to civilize the natives and assimilate them into European culture, but also to introduce European architecture, animal domestication, and agriculture to the native landscape. The natives at Santa Inés were used as laborers and the mission's agriculture caused great ecological changes in the environment. Archaeobotanical analysis displayed that the agricultural efforts at Santa Inés are specifically responsible for integrating pea, squash, potato, cabbage, olive, grape, pear, apricot, hemp, peach, carrot, etc. into the environment. It was not long after the placement of the missions that European plants and weeds proliferated throughout California's coast.

Porter Gustin
Paragraph Three of History Section

In 1833 the missions in California were secularized, and most of their land given in land grants to settlers.


 * Adapted Draft: In 1833 the missions in California began to be secularized, however, it wasn’t until 1835 that the Santa Inés Mission became secularized by the Mexican government. Secularization involved replacing the Padres as managers of the missions with government appointed overseers. In this case, the existing Spanish Franciscans were replaced by Mexican Franciscans who were restricted to provide only for the spiritual needs of the Chumash. The Chumash were mistreated under this new policy and began to leave the mission, returning to their villages or working at settlers’ ranches. As a result, much of their land was given to settlers in land grants.

Isaac Esqueda
Paragraph One of History Section

In 1821, a fulling mill was added, designed by newly arrived American immigrant Joseph John Chapman.


 * Adapted Draft: In 1821, a fulling mill was added, designed by newly arrived American immigrant Joseph John Chapman. Chapman was a clever fellow, gifted at anything mechanical. He oversaw the building of a grist mill for Mission San Gabriel (located in San Marino), and he prepared timbers for the construction of the first church in Los Angeles. The mill he built near San Gabriel is now a museum. Chapman was baptized at San Buenaventura in 1822, and that same year married Guadalupe Ortega of Santa Barbara with whom he had five children. In 1824 Chapman bought land in Los Angeles and developed a vineyard, but still continued to do odd jobs at the missions, being a jack-of-all-trades, who apparently could make or repair anything that was needed.